From the Mind of AlphaBetsy

On Saturday my mom and I headed to the Ohio Village, here in Columbus, for the annual Country Living Fair. This is the second year we have been in attendance, and it was just as great this year. I came out with many, many ideas and a couple of awesome finds. Because of the wedding I didn't do as much shopping as I wanted to, but I got some amazing pieces.  The view from the line.  The Country Living Booth.  Right inside the gate was the cutest lemon shake up stand EVER!!  More of the adorable lemon shake up stand.  The canopy from the shake up stand. A gorgeous fall arrangement.  Fantastic Felted Pillow How cute is this camper? Beautiful flower arrangements were everywhere. A beautiful fall display from a booth specializing in vintage.  The famous pumpkin/gourd stack.  Such cute hanging vases.  A great display of globes and cameras.  I loved this booths sign... and their adorabl...

On Sunday Seth and I went down to South Vienna where his Grandma lives to visit her and to celebrate our niece, Moira's birthday (her party was on Saturday and I managed not to get any pictures), and ended up visiting the South Vienna Corn Festival. This is just a little local town fair, which made it fun. The food was amazing... fresh sweet corn, inch thick grilled pork chops, homemade chicken and noodles and apple dumplings that we almost as good as the ones Seth's grandma makes. I had a giant ear of corn, a steakburger with mushrooms and onions and an apple dumpling of course. So good... seriously. Then we walked around a bit to get some pictures of the rides and such. Some of the rides were older looking and therefore charming. After that we went to browse some of the craft tents. We ended up buying an amazing hand crafted wooden chest of drawers for $30. It's pretty good sized and a high quality piece so I feel like we got a good deal. We also bought some local honey f...